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Fiery flying serpent


The fiery flying serpent is a creature mentioned in the Book of Isaiah (30:6).

References to "fiery serpents" lacking a mention of flight can be found in several places in the Hebrew Bible.

In the History of Herodotus, Book 2, Herodotus describes flying winged serpents.

In Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods Book 1 XXXVI, Cotta describes how the Egyptian ibis was deified because it "protects Egypt from plague, by killing and eating the flying serpents that are brought from the Libyan desert..."


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